In June 2018, Independent Sector and Stanford Social Innovation Review launched Civil Society for the 21st Century, an article series featuring some of today’s leading thinkers and practitioners exploring current issues in civil society.
Is social media compatible with civil society?
A typical school day once included studying your ABCs and your civic duties. With civics class now a quaint remembrance, have platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram fulfilled their promise of greater civic engagement?
More than a decade after publishing Civic Life in the Information Age, Stefanie Sanford reconsiders whether technology has strengthened community connections or “stoked anger, fortified tribalism, and mobilized online mobs.”
Sanford has a simple yet “radical proposition” to put the “civil” back in society, equipping young people to build a more productive democracy while working collaboratively in pursuit of community solutions.
